Should home electronics come in glossy or matte? OK, so it’s not exactly the weightiest debate of our time, but it does matter to people who care about the appearance… Read More
Is this a glimpse of the future of Kinect for Xbox 360 and Windows? During a Microsoft Research demo event with a handful of reporters earlier this year, there was… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 landed atop the U.S. console market once again in July, according to a statement just released by the company in advance of the official report from the… Read More
Fruit Ninja debuts this week for Microsoft’s Xbox Live — using the Kinect motion sensor to let gamers slice through bananas, pineapples and other varieties of fruit on screen. Yes,… Read More
Bungie, the Seattle-area game studio best known for the blockbuster Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, just released a nearly hour-long documentary, “O Brave New World,” to mark its 20th anniversary.… Read More
The launch of Microsoft’s Avatar Kinect yesterday has provided a new form of creative expression to Xbox 360 users — letting them put their Xbox Live avatars in virtual settings… Read More
June was a down month for the U.S. video-game industry overall, but not for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 –which turned in its sixth straight month atop the console market, with 507,000… Read More
Microsoft would no doubt have the money to buy Hulu, the popular online television and movie service, but would it have the inclination? My gut reaction is no, but the… Read More
As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided a glimpse of one direction the initiative could take. Look… Read More
Laura Massey is big into games, to say the least. She’s a software engineer for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console, part of a team working on top-secret stuff for… Read More
In a down month for video games, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to buck the trend in May, according to new data out this afternoon. Microsoft sold 270,000 Xbox 360s in… Read More
There’s plenty to criticize Microsoft about these days. The company has fallen behind Apple in mobile phones and tablets. It’s trailing Google in phones and search. Its stock has been… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a big week in tech news — including Jeff Bezos at the Amazon.com shareholders meeting; Apple’s Steve Jobs at the Cupertino City… Read More
Microsoft releases a teaser trailer for Halo 4. Master Chief is still a mega hunk, sporting a mega gun. Tetris had a birthday earlier this week (27 years old!).… Read More
One of the E3 leaks from Microsoft’s website this morning was a new Star Wars game for the Kinect motion-sensor, and a teaser video is already available on YouTube. Watch… Read More
Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by releasing a new slate of statistics to demonstrate the momentum… Read More
There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many of them were not-so-subtle digs at Microsoft, which Schmidt all… Read More
Microsoft will take the wraps off the next version of Windows Phone, code-named “Mango,” during a special event in New York City on Tuesday morning. CEO Steve Ballmer offered a… Read More
Update: It’s official: Microsoft adds new ‘Skype Division’ in $8.5 billion deal Microsoft’s blockbuster agreement to acquire Skype is all but assured now, with multiple reports citing a purchase price… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox, Office and Windows Server businesses helped the company overcome a down quarter for the Windows PC market. The company just posted revenue of $16.43 billion for the quarter… Read More
Microsoft plans to launch the long-awaited Hulu Plus service for its Xbox Live network tomorrow, allowing Xbox Live Gold members who pay an extra $8/month to get current TV shows… Read More
In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor to its hit Wii game console in 2012, after previewing… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a year ago, according to data released today by the NPD… Read More
Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long run. But don’t look for it in stores. It’s a… Read More
Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience” team, showing the company’s vision for PC gaming and communications.… Read More
Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on its dedicated Zune hardware but planing to keep the Zune music software running on Windows Phone and other devices, according to a source… Read More
Except for maybe those crazies at the front of the iPad 2 line, many of us have become pretty measured about our big gadget purchases in this post-recession era —… Read More
There’s a new king in the U.S. video game market, and it’s not exactly good news for the industry’s efforts to make itself more family friendly. “Call of Duty: Black… Read More
Microsoft sold 535,000 Xbox 360s in the United States in February, the biggest month in the console’s history outside of the peak holiday shopping season. The Redmond company released the… Read More
Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion sensor on Windows 7 machines. But many developers aren’t waiting… Read More